Remarks on the history and etiology of cholera / by David Craigie.

Date:
[1833?]
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Credit: Remarks on the history and etiology of cholera / by David Craigie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    about 36, who was attacked between two and three in the morn- ing of Thursday 19th January with vomiting, purging, and cramps, followed by general coldness, and died the same even- ing between six and seven o’clock. This woman never was at Tranent or Haddington, nor any way to the east where the dis- ease was prevailing, but had been on Monday 16th to Fisher- row, where the disease had not yet appeared. The cottage in which she lived is one of those in the line near the Esk. The disease next appeared in the person of Jean Galloway, alias Mrs Currie, aged about 50, on Thursday 19th about twelve, in the usual way ; and she died that evening at ten. Mrs Currie had rubbed the previous patient; but the interval between exposure and attack appears to be instantaneous. None of her family, consisting of her husband and three children, were attacked. On the same day, Thursday 19th, Mrs Sneddon, oet. 49, who had been well on Wednesday, but afterwards acknowledged she had laboured under looseness without pain for three weeks, was attacked with sickness, vomiting, and more violent purging. This, which was the third case, recovered. Mrs Moffat, aet. 60, was then attacked with the usual symp- toms on Friday the 20th, at two r. m., and died on Saturday morning between four and five, after 14 hours illness. This •woman had visited Mrs Clarkson on Monday ; but the interval also appears to be too short for the influence of a contagious poi- son. None of the family, consisting of three sons and two daughters, were attacked. The fifth case occurred in the person of George Clarkson, set. 48, the husband of No. 1. He had been at the funeral of his wife on the afternoon of Saturday 21st between 3 and 4; he became sick, and vomited and purged copiously the same night; all Sunday he wras in a state of collapse; and he died on Mon- day, twenty minutes after one in the morning. This family consisted of eight persons, one son by a former marriage, one son and daughter, twins at the breast, and a servant; yet of these eight, the father and mother only were attacked and cut off. On the evening of the same day, the sixth case occurred in the person of Elizabeth Iline, a woman of 29, unmarried. Her first symptoms were cramps, speedily followed by vomiting and purging, and the usual symptoms of collapse. She lingered, however, till the 28th, when she died between seven and eight in the evening. This woman, who was said to be stout, healthy, and vigorous, had assisted Mrs Clarkson. On the same day, Saturday 21st, James Sneddon, aet. 45, collier, who had been thoroughly exposed to moisture at the l'restongrangc pit, and had been labouring under bowd com-